[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3669]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PASS FAIR DISASTER AND TAX BILLS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I can tell my colleagues what 
all of us want on the Democratic side of the aisle. We want fair and 
clean legislation to help the people in the Midwest and we, yes, want 
the bag of tricks to stop, the trickery that the Republicans are trying 
to play on the American people.
  Frankly, this supplemental appropriation bill does two damaging 
things. One, it says that the balanced budget deal is not really a 
deal. It says that the promise of $1.5 billion to help our seniors with 
Medicare premiums, we will not have to commit to that nor will we have 
to give you that. That is why we want to put in the supplemental 
appropriation bill some kind of language that keeps the Government 
doors open, not because we care about that but because we want to bust 
the budget and we do not want you to do anything about it.
  The census? That is not relevant to appropriations for the people in 
need. It is the same kind of trickery over and over again. It is the 
same way with the Republican tax plan, a plan for the rich, not for 
small businesses, not for middle income or low income individuals who 
send their children to the lowest income colleges. There is no money in 
there for them.
  Mr. Speaker, let us get away from the bag of tricks. Give the money 
to the people in the Midwest and pass a fair tax bill.

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